Thad E Ginathom

@Claritas I don't think you're wrong. I'm almost entirely irish/catholic heritage but when I lived in Brookyln I assume it was my beard and big nose that had the Hasids/cab drivers/deli guys regularly asking me if I was a member of the tribe.

@bobboxbody Was it funny, irritating, both, or something else? I lived in 55% white / 45% Mexican suburb for 2.5 years. And it drove me crazy that the local *bank* branch *started* the conversation in Spanish. I kept thinking, "This is America. What the f**k is wrong with you people?!" I knew a young Mexican there who would speak only English in businesses. Bet he's doing very well for himself.

@Claritas I didn't think much of it either way except that made me realize lots of people think I'm a Jew because my face fits into a stereotypical category. Typically Jews are the only ones who comment on it, aside from a super racist landlord who wanted to make sure I wasn't Greek and was happy when he thought I was Jewish because I would have lots of money to pay my rent.

HaHa, Thanks caute!

I try to be honourable, but I am often not Right!

(looks like Somerset has a Duke already, so I can't have that. Unless I march on him with men, horses and cannon maybe.)

(Wait, I head that Wagner might be looking for new work...)

Somerset may have a Duke, but it sure as hell doesn't have a Thad.

I have passed through!

Amusingly, I recently came to the obvious realisation that if DACs need time to "warm up" or "burn in", the same goes for ADCs! There was a guy that shared some recording samples of a fresh-out-of-box mic interface and the same interface a week later with all else being the same-- the difference was far from negligible. (WHY it took me so long to realise this? I'm slow on the best of days)

Ho, ho, ho, do not mix “burn in” with “warm up”! Why settle for one nervosa if you can have two for the same price? Not to mention the interaction of the two, like does necessary warm up time change during burn in? Is that change linear or asymptotic? f**k it, who cares just listen to music

Ahh, true. I remember the day when it took the valve TV five or ten minutes to warm up. And it did nothing until it had. The Radiogram took a minute or two. I cannot deny "warming up."

Paranoia strikes deep
Into your life it will creep

Something’s happening here…

I had totally forgotten this song. I had totally forgotten Buffalo Springfield even! A chance click on Youtube reopened this door.

@GuySmiley'sMonkey --- amnesia strikes deep into my life, and his has crept!

I was a terrible snob when I was 12! I didn't even like The Beatles in '63/'64, and thought this song was absolute rubbish.

What a shame I couldn't appreciate it as a bit of good fun!

Millie Small died a few years ago, aged 73.

Not only did I discover Elvis Costello, I even found him singing *with Jerry Garcia*

Wow.

This Year’s Model and My Aim Is True.

Thanks :)

God sidetracked by Blondie, Grateful Dead, Hot Tuna.

Again.

Asphinctersayswhat?

“Hing, hing,
Ya no hing,
Porque no hing, porque le hing...”

???

Hing is, indeed, the Hindi word. I should know the Tamil word but I don't.

And O how the sea she roars with laughter
And howls with the dancing wind
To see my two feet standing here questioning

(I always heard that as "The harbour sea," and tried to make sense of that)

Apparently nobody knows, or wants to know.

Well you should! You should know Roy Harper, the album Folkjokeopus, and the song McGoohan's Blues.

(Or perhaps everyone just went, yeah yeah, that again...)

The internet is wonderful if you know some lyrics. Shazam is even better if you are listening to a song you don't know. And Google (and others) will apparently try to identify a tune if you can hum, sing, or whistle a portion as well. Have not tried that last one yet, but sure wish these things has been around when I was a kid.

Very true. And it never fails to amaze me, finding out how much stuff I misheard, even with my relatively better hearing of 50 years ago.

But this one, it didn't help. I eventually pieced most of the first line from disused brain cells, and google found nothing. Not even when I eventually located the song by listening and typed in the lyrics I could hear!

" it never fails to amaze me, finding out how much stuff I misheard". LOL. Like Hendrix' Kiss This Guy or Judas Priest's Raking The Lawn. Sometimes it is hard to unhear things even when you know they are wrong, but it's all in good fun in any case.

No, I didn't think so.

Sonos doesn't seem to get much interest here, but is a big name in multi-room home audio. Today, I happened to see, on the internet, that they are going to go streaming only. No local music.

f**k that!

I use them for background music playing and tv sound, but still…WTF

Yeah nah. Shit idea.

Yeah, I'm with you on the use of periods to distinguish between abbreviations and acronyms.

Eat your Beans n Toast and keep making gas

I haven't got anything against Australia. Not even NSW!

NAWP!

(Not a whinging pom)

There it is! My epitaph.

How does the Australian bacteria feel about GrubHub? He's prokaryote.

That is beyond me. But...

I don't need a wife,
Living the timeless life.

Spelled out phonetically - pro-carry-out. I earned a BA in molecular bio in my misspent youth. I have far too many science puns.

Didn’t know he was the singer for Baby Shark. Seriously though. RIP to a legend of the arts.

Ok, I believe you. RIP

the things inside the outside decided they wanted to be outside the inside. You can tell that from the way it is.

I guess... it's exciting and one learns a lot.

eg. I learnt not to drink too much alcohol that way. But sometimes, it was just the way it was.

Loved that phrase :-)

It seems that it was written by a guy called Keith Reid --- and he died, aged 76.

Thank you, Keith, for this strange and beautiful thing that has haunted for over fifty years

I agree

It’s funny, you post here a lot but I know almost nothing about your setup.

@Cspirou... Who, me? i wouldn't really call it a setup!

I don't even have a dedicated headphone amp. I usually run my HD 800 from the socket on a Cyrus integrated amp. Currently, that is under repair, and I'm listening from the headphone socket of my DAC, a Motu M4.

I'm missing my speakers, and if this goes on much longer I'll have to seek a new integrated or, at least, a basic dedicated amp better than the M4 output.

It's several years since I decided that my ears were not good enough to spend money on :/

Oh god, apparently he is doing a thing called "Dilbert Reborn" which he says is "spicier" than the original. Might as well write for the Babylon Bee at this point.

"dilbert reborn"... Yep. Count me out.

I think it is amazing that he has kept up daily comment on office/corporate life for thirty years. But enough was enough. With or without more spice.

I didn't follow the details of Adams's fall from grace. I just know that he said some bad, racist, stuff.

His recent black male character on the strip was quite clever. IIRC, he ended up defying all pointy-hair's diversity plans by "identifying as a white woman."

That the strip was 99.9% white, though, should have sounded alarm bells long ago.

Love. Per your original post. I detect disingenuousness. Lol.

Hey, I *like* bats. They have sweet faces.

What it was all really about... Paul Simon's beautiful poetry and music.

:)

I have not changed any power component recently. There is a huge hotchpotch of equipment plugged in. Very non-audiophile. So it could have been a bad day for that stuff.

Or a bad day for the computer. That certainly happens.

Sad age-related fact: bad days for my ears happen much more often

@SoupRKnowva, the large, ear-enclosing cups of the HDs are a winner for me, but the downside (literally, haha) is the interaction where they meet the lower jaw. And I sometimes wish they didn't.

But HD800 bothers me less in that respect than HD600 did.